...a parrot...a second hand human being...regurgitating clever sounding things which for you have no reality whatsoever??
2006-12-02 23:20:54 · 12 answers · asked by catweazle 5 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
some people are confusing wisdom with knowledge....obviously you can learn from others.
2006-12-02 23:49:55 · update #1
sorry to all the parrot lovers out there!
a lot of you seem to think that an accumulation of knowledge will lead to wisdom!!!! shows what you know!!
wisdom doesnt come from piling knowledge upon knowledge...it comes from sifting for the truth.
there are so many fake people out there trying to prop up their egos by accumulating knowledge about all manner of things like art and politics etc, and trying to pass it off as wisdom to their [as they would see them!] intellectual inferiors!
so to conclude! ive nothing against parrots...just people who behave like parrots!
2006-12-03 04:20:08 · update #2
pretty much thats why i let my kids burn themselvs on the hot pan or let them put that dime in the socket. i could say fire is hot a millon times to anyone! but untill they find out for them selves its unles imfo to them.
2006-12-02 23:27:56 · answer #1 · answered by Licemen 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
By the term, I assume you mean knowledge. Knowledge is the acquistion of facts, wisdom is the application of knowledge. Some very unintelligent people are some of the wisest among us.
A hundred years ago, most people were poor, had little formal education and worked too hard to spend much time seeking knowledge. But I think a great deal of them were more wise than we are today. They spent more time learning the how and why of things, and more time in discussion with each other than we do. And they spent a great deal of time reading, learning things, feelings, thoughts and history from all over the world and all through time. They tended to be far more literate than we are today and I think it was that which made them far more wise than we are today, coupled with the time they took to consider what they were learning and to make decisions.
Acquiring knowledge does not make you a parrot or a second hand human being. Do you think William Shakespeare was a parrot? Yet, his work did not suddenly spring from a vacuum. Many of his plays and sonnets are reflections and rewritings of classics most of us have long forgotten. Does that make him a parrot, or the genius he's been credited as being?
If what you are learning has no reality for you whatsoever, then what you are learning is a waste of your time only until you realise it. Once you realise you've been wasting your time, you've learned something about yourself, you've acquired a little wisdom, and you can move on and learn things you deem relevant.
2006-12-02 23:40:54 · answer #2 · answered by soobee 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Haven't you heard that you can learn from other peoples mistakes and triumphs? With knowledge comes wisdom. Wisdom is derived by making knowledge work for you. A parrot can repeat wise things but can not live according to them.
Your comment of the parrot relates knowledge to the question proposed. A parrot can have the knowledge of speech but not the wisdom to use it in relevance to its existence.
The secret? Don't be a parrot.
2006-12-03 01:47:21 · answer #3 · answered by mr.bond 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That would mean that the only things of value are the things that you learn on your own. I can't accept that there is nothing I can learn from someone else; that there is nothing to benefit from the acquired wisdom of others. Personal experience is not the only pathway to knowledge, although, admittedlly some act as if that is the case. But I agree that someone who parrots what they have heard from others hasn't really learned anything.
2006-12-02 23:31:21 · answer #4 · answered by senlin 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't agree with you. All wisdom that we gain during the life is someway always useful to us.....if not today.....some time in future.may be practically you will not use all this wisdom, but theoretical knowledge of all this wisdom will help you to answer questions of your children and grand children as wisdom grows with experience and age. Today you may be feeling it is irrelevant, but as you will grow , life will bring you to many circumstances where you will find use of what you have learnt and then you will be proud of yourself, that you already knew about it from your knowledge..........what ever we learn is always useful to us if not directly.......indirectly. Hope you are matured enough to understand what I am trying to tell.......... so my advice is keep on gaining more and more wisdom.........
2006-12-02 23:55:30 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wisdom is only as good as the way that it is used. In the wrong hands it can be a dangerous thing.
2006-12-02 23:24:40 · answer #6 · answered by shellers41 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, wisdom is useless only if you do not value it's source. And do not truly understand what it is you have been told.
If you believe someone is telling you the truth then you will listen to what they have to say and take it into your life.
Stuff you work out for yourself is very useful but we cannot all be geniuses and work out everything for ourselves.
2006-12-02 23:31:25 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Certainly all knowledge of God must be self-realized. In order to attain enlightenment you must experience God in a direct and personal way. True knowledge of God can not come from any source other than yourself based on experiencing God.
2006-12-02 23:29:07 · answer #8 · answered by b_steeley 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
True. Although sometimes its good to read something which follows your own line of thinking but has done it better or gone farther than yourself. Or to read something totally different from your way of looking at things - this is always a great source of discovery.
2006-12-02 23:47:41 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree with that statement somewhat. But you also can't simply ignore external sources for your intellectual growth.
Otherwise you would have to spend your entire life perpetually reinventing the wheel.
-Aztec276
2006-12-02 23:29:39 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋